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Dr. Alan Green an American Archeologist leads Danielle Noble an her team of cave divers on an expedition searching the Mayan ancient records. Instead of finding glory they will find hell hidden in the underwater caves of Xibalba.

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Well acted. Despite that it was a "whatever" movie. It soon becomes clear that the aliens are not going to play a major role in the movie. There is some nonsense about 2012, Mayas joining with aliens to defeat the reptilians, etc. We watch Dr. Green assemble his expedition, there are assorted interactions between the characters, a pointless encounter with bandits and finally, they reach the lost temple. The lead diver, Daniela, keeps having flashbacks to her husband who died in a water cave. I will say that the cave diving scenes were beautiful and the Mayan re-enactors were interesting. Finally, they meet the reptilians who apparently possess human bodies. Human hosts can be identified by their reptilian eyes and can only be killed zombie-style with knives or bullets to the head (it is not clear how Dr. Green knows this). There isn't much action with the reptilians. They possess a few people and Daniela stabs one in the head. Dr. Green sets off a bomb to trap the reptilians, killing himself in the process and leaving Daniela as the sole survivor. Then the good aliens arrive to save humanity but all we see is their spaceship hovering above the temple.

At the end of the movie, I felt like I had watched a pilot for a TV show. The story was OK but dragged at times. The entire first half of the movie was like watching an episode of a soap opera with attractive people. This is a very forgettable movie that I would not watch again.

The movie hit a lull after the drive to the dive site. Never recovered the intensity. This was a good idea but the cheesy acting and pacing issues just kind of dragged it to a slow death. Too bad, in the right hands this could have been a cool film.

The cast was alright but it looked like a soap opera at first you know all the drama young good looked people then finding A lost civilazition it all to me two or three other films put together like Alien.

“Curse of the Mayans” is a science fiction melodrama set in the jungles and unexplored deep natural caves of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. American professor Dr. Alan Green (Steve Wilcox) discovers a manuscript that may hold the key to the lost Mayan culture. After traveling to Mexico, he hires an expert team of cave divers led by Danielle Noble (Carla Ortiz) to explore a submerged labyrinth of ruins left behind by the ancient civilization before its mysterious disappearance.

But when the team unwittingly stumbles on an underwater prison and unintentionally frees the evil alien beings trapped within, they are forced to fight for their survival and prevent the extraterrestrial apocalypse predicted by the Mayans long ago.

The film covers the same territory as such films as “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.” A group of well-meaning individuals enter unknown, or even forbidden places and encounter unanticipated dangers, turning their journeys into battles for survival. “Curse of the Mayans” is based on myths about the sudden disappearance of an entire civilization, allowing screenwriters Alberto Haggar and Joaquin Rodriguez to use their imagination to fill in the unknowns.

Rodriguez, who also directs, films most of the action in deep shadow with ominous music accompanying most scenes to build suspense, but the movie is overly talky with a great deal of unnecessary exposition slowing the narrative. The acting is merely routine. Years ago, when there were double bills in movie theatres, this would be a typical bottom-of-the-bill B picture.

Remember towards the end of 2012 when the Mayans had predicted the end of the world? According to this movie, they didn't actually predict the end of the world--they predicted the beginning of the end of the world. That is what "Curse of the Mayans" is about. It seems (according to Mayan folklore) that extraterrestrial beings have been on this planet for centuries. In fact, some creatures were held captive in unknown whereabouts. To break the seal which contained these creatures would be the end for mankind. That sounds promising enough as a concept. The problem is this movie did absolutely NOTHING with that concept.

Instead what the viewer gets in about 45 minutes of everybody's back story, a lotta talk, and very little action. As the expedition to find this "lost city" nears its destination, the action picks up...a little. But what this movie used to lure people NEVER comes to fruition. These demons are on screen for all of about 10 minutes. A story about their past would have been way more interesting than having to watching jaw-jacking that seemed to go on forever. The movie isn't ALL bad; the cinematography was very nice, the locations were simply breathtaking, and the underwater diving scenes were also very well done. However, if that's what I had wanted to see, I could have watched "National Geographic" channel.

Unrated but contains sexual situations, brief nudity, language, and a little violence. This one truly is a toss-up; can't say yes/can't say no.

The Mayan curse is revealed....expedition to jungle...locate evil reptilian aliens from the Pleiades.

Carla Ortiz is our sexy low budget Angelina including bikini, tight clothes, sex scene, and side nudity in case you miss Lara. The space ship you see on the DVD cover is in the very last clip. Most of the film consisted of drama as they look for the hidden Mayan location.

The Pleiades is a group of stars. While they look bunched together, they are really many light years apart. The whole idea that one race evolved in the this group on separate planets and with a need to consume human souls light years away didn't make it in my book as something well thought out. When it comes to science fiction, I understand you have to give a mulligan or two, but their origin details were like a ridiculous episode of Ancient Astronauts.

The Spanish and Mayan had English subtitles, otherwise they were not available.